On a steamy and sweltering morning in south Louisiana, the LSU football team officially reported for the start of fall camp. The Tigers checking into the West Campus Apartments Wednesday morning, with their first practice set for Thursday. More >>

On a steamy and sweltering morning in south Louisiana, the LSU football team officially reported for the start of fall camp. The Tigers checking into the West Campus Apartments Wednesday morning, with their first practice set for Thursday. More >>

Leonard Fournette's freshman season got off to a slow start. But after being held to just 18 yards rushing in a season opening win against Wisconsin, Fournette burst into the end zone for a short touchdown run against FCS member Sam Houston State in Tiger Stadium.More >>

Leonard Fournette's freshman season got off to a slow start. But after being held to just 18 yards rushing in a season opening win against Wisconsin, Fournette burst into the end zone for a short touchdown run against FCS member Sam Houston State in Tiger Stadium.More >>

As a Warrick Dunn Player of the Year Award winner, we know Kendell Beckwith possesses both the physical and mental tools to be great on the football field. Now entering his junior year, he said he’s taking his new leadership role on head first. More >>

As a Warrick Dunn Player of the Year Award winner, we know Kendell Beckwith possesses both the physical and mental tools to be great on the football field. Now entering his junior year, he said he’s taking his new leadership role on head first. More >>

Tyler Davis scored 20 points, including Texas A&M's final basket, and the Aggies defeated Mississippi 71-69 on Tuesday night for A&M's first victory in Southeastern Conference play this season. The Rebels' Breein Tyree missed a 3-point attempt at the other end that rattled in and out as time expired.

Tyler Davis scored 20 points, including Texas A&M's final basket, and the Aggies defeated Mississippi 71-69 on Tuesday night for A&M's first victory in Southeastern Conference play this season. The Rebels' Breein Tyree missed a 3-point attempt at the other end that rattled in and out as time expired.

South Carolina forward A'ja Wilson, center, celebrates a basket against Virginia guard Dominique Toussaint (4) and Felicia Aiyeotan (30) during the first half of a game in the second-round of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament. (AP Photo)

In her final game at Colonial Life Arena, A'ja Wilson had 25 points and 11 rebounds and South Carolina advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 66-56 win over Virginia.

Head Coach Dawn Staley KNOWS that's late for many Gamecocks fans, but she knows they will show up. She also wants you to protect your paycheck and have an excuse prepared for your boss should you oversleep on Monday.

Head Coach Dawn Staley KNOWS that's late for many Gamecocks fans, but she knows they will show up. She also wants you to protect your paycheck and have an excuse prepared for your boss should you oversleep on Monday.

South Carolina forward A'ja Wilson, right, drives to the hoop against North Carolina A&T center Alexis Lessears, left, during the first half of game in the first-round of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament, Friday, March 16, 2018 (AP Photo)

The Gamecock women will take on the Virginia Cavaliers in the second round of the 2018 NCAA Women's Tournament on Sunday, March 18 at 9 p.m. from Colonial Life Arena.

Mercy what a jumble the SEC has become so early in the season! Let's take a look at what lies in store this week:

Louisiana Monroe at Auburn, 12:21 a.m. ET, SEC Network

Louisiana Monroe, Marilyn's younger sister, hopes to improve to 2-0 in the SEC this week.

A clash of savage birds is going on here: the Warhawks face a team with a War Eagle for a mascot. LaMo is a 16-point underdog at Auburn. But they were a 30-point road dog against Arkansas last week, and the school sold commemorative T-shirts after that one.

Auburn quarterback Kiehl Frazier, who made more turnovers than Pillsbury in the loss at Mississippi State, is at the epicenter of a tailspin that could become a Category 5 disaster if the Tigers manage to lose.

After this week, Auburn faces in succession LSU, which kicked five more players off the team this week, and Arkansas, which is experiencing a whole other level of sorrow.

Auburn will probably win, but curling up with a bloody Mary and watching this one is suddenly a better idea than cutting the grass.

Alabama at Arkansas, 3:30 p.m. ET, CBS

Nick Saban spent the first two weeks of the season lambasting the media for talking too much about how good the No. 1 Alabama football team is. All that positive publicity made the players so overconfident that the Crimson Tide barely eked out a 35-0 win over Western Kentucky.

This week, as UA prepared to play the team formerly known as No. 8 Arkansas, we have received approximately the same amount of communication from Tuscaloosa that we have from extraterrestrial life forms. Historically, ominous Alabama silence means bad news for opposing teams. Saban, who is a little, shall we say, obsessive, has his team in ultra-super-focus mode.

Arkansas fell apart last week. Key players got hurt, among them QB Tyler Wilson, who got knocked cold. Late in the game the TV cameras panned the Arkansas sideline as the tragedy unspooled and viewers witnessed the same deer-in-the-headlights gaze from Razorback coaches that Alabama fans saw not so long ago, when Mike Shula was in command.

Arkansas toppled completely out of the AP Poll, the longest drop in the history of time.

Perhaps the Hogs will regain focus and determination for Coach John L. Smith, stage a massive upset and fans wearing plastic pig hats will weep with relief and joy.

Don't count on it.

Florida at Tennessee, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN

Back when Apple stock was cheap, this game was big stuff. Florida and Tennessee were the class of the SEC. They had clear eyes and full hearts and the smack talk was great.

When Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning made the emotional decision to return to his beloved school for his senior year instead of pursuing NFL riches, Florida's Steve Spurrier, who was a lot funnier when he was the coach of a really good team, said it was because Manning wanted to be a three-time Citrus Bowl MVP.

See, boys and girls, back in those days the Citrus Bowl was where the second-place SEC team always played. The Citrus Bowl is now called the … never mind, you had to be there.

Now both teams are back on the upswing and all hopey changey. UT and UF are nationally ranked for the first time in years, and both are contenders in the SEC East. Sort of. No, really. That's not funny. I'm serious.

Tennessee is off to a 2-0 start, and the Vol Nation is dancing around the golden calf, envisioning serial victories and eternal greatness. QB Tyler Bray is excellent, and the offense around him is very good. But the defense is sketchy, and the Vols have played precisely nobody.

Florida isn't as pretty or cool as Tennessee this year, but does have a certain blue-collar charm. Those Gators slugged out a win against a better-than-expected Bowling Green State team in the opener, then came from behind and dog whipped Texas A&M at Kyle Field in front of one of the only crowds in college football that compares in insanity to the 102,455 bellowing wild people dressed in orange pants and things that will inhabit Neyland Stadium.

Semi-interesting

The youngsters from Missouri got their comeuppance last week. Somebody ran his mouth and said Georgia played "old man football," which was a very bad idea. The Tigers showed up for their first SEC dance wearing uniforms that looked like a roller derby team and Georgia proceeded to take them way down south to the Okefenokee Swamp, drug them through the mud and the mosquitoes and water moccasins and snapping turtles and said "Old man that, ladies." Following that rude initiation, the Tigers now carry the SEC torch against interlopers from Arizona State, of all places, and they dang sure know what is expected of them.

Texas A&M at SMU – The Aggies, too, will be expected to crush non-SEC opposition.

Texas visits Ole Miss, and we find out if the Rebels are gangsters or pranksters.

Western Kentucky comes to Kentucky. If this is a good game, Kentucky is awful.

Bloodbaths

Mississippi State at Troy. Troy's home field used to be a land mine for visiting teams of prominence – ask Marshall, Missouri and Oklahoma State. Not right now.

UAB at South Carolina. Coach Spurrier, please play somebody soon, OK?

Idaho at LSU. LSU kicked some more guys off the team, but that shouldn't make much difference against the Fighting Potatoes.

(AP Photo/Gerry Broome). Texas A&amp;M's Jay Jay Chandler (0) drives against North Carolina's Luke Maye (32) during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, March 18, 2018.

T.J. Starks had 21 points and Texas A&M overpowered North Carolina inside, upsetting the reigning national champions 86-65 Sunday in the NCAA Tournament to mark the second straight year a title holder missed the...More >>

T.J. Starks had 21 points and Texas A&M overpowered North Carolina inside, upsetting the reigning national champions 86-65 Sunday in the NCAA Tournament to mark the second straight year a title holder missed the Sweet 16.More >>

(AP Photo/Denis Poroy). Clemson forward Elijah Thomas, front, celebrates a basket with forward David Skara during the first half of a second-round NCAA men's college basketball tournament game against Auburn on Sunday, March 18, 2018, in San Diego.

Gabe DeVoe scored 22 points and Elijah Thomas had 18 points and 11 rebounds for Clemson, which closed the first half with a 25-4 run that helped it beat cold-shooting Auburn 84-53 and advance to the Midwest Region...More >>

Gabe DeVoe scored 22 points and Elijah Thomas had 18 points and 11 rebounds for Clemson, which closed the first half with a 25-4 run that helped it beat cold-shooting Auburn 84-53 and advance to the Midwest Region semifinal.More >>

(AP Photo/Wade Payne). Oregon State center Marie Gulich, left, knocks the ball away Tennessee center Mercedes Russell, right, in the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 18, 2018, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Tennessee lost for the first time at home in women's NCAA Tournament history when Marie Gulich had 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead sixth-seeded Oregon State to a 66-59 win.More >>

Tennessee lost for the first time at home in women's NCAA Tournament history when Marie Gulich had 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead sixth-seeded Oregon State to a 66-59 win.More >>

(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez). Tennessee guard James Daniel III (3) attempts a steal against Loyola-Chicago guard Clayton Custer (13), who maintained control of the ball during the first half of a second-round game at the NCAA men's college basketball tour...

Another NCAA Tournament pray answered for Loyola-Chicago, and the Ramblers are set to bring Sister Jean to the Sweet 16. Clayton Custer's jumper took a friendly bounce off the rim and in with 3.6 seconds left, and...More >>

Another NCAA Tournament pray answered for Loyola-Chicago, and the Ramblers are set to bring Sister Jean to the Sweet 16. Clayton Custer's jumper took a friendly bounce off the rim and in with 3.6 seconds left, and 11th-seeded Loyola beat Tennessee.More >>